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Jan 11, 2011 · Girls’ High moved to its current location at Broad Street and Olney Avenue in 1958, with the old building on Spring Garden Street becoming the Julia R. Masterman School. The Spring Garden Street building was also added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Dec 9, 2011 · Half of the Philadelphia School District’s 257 schools were built before World War II. About one in ten is rated “poor” for condition; more than half only “fair.” One hundred years ago, there weren’t enough buildings to educate Philadelphia’s 182,637 public school students. Crowded conditions would worsen as elementary school age ...
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Aug 20, 2015 · Bibi went to Cheltenham High. He joined the debate and chess teams, and played left wing on the soccer field. (Insert your favorite leftist joke here). But Bibi felt little attachment to this ...
May 4, 2015 · Germantown High School was just one of many schools that became too great a burden for the school district to bear. In 2013, Philadelphia Public School Notebook reported that GHS was using just 31 percent of its building, with two thirds of the space sitting empty and unutilized. Less than half-a-year after the report, Germantown closed its doors.
The history of Girard College, a boarding school for children from poor families headed by single parents or guardians, reflects the history of Philadelphia and the nation. Opened in 1848, Girard College was established under a bequest from wealthy philanthropist Stephen Girard (1750-1831), whose will specified a school for “poor white male ...
o 1872: The last school district in the state voted to establish public schools. o 1874: State law passed requiring all districts to provide public schools and said no district could abolish free schools. o 1881: Desegregation of Pennsylvania Public Schools made illegal (case: Meadville, Crawford County) o 1895: First mandatory attendance ...
Apr 6, 2018 · Mailing Address: P.O. Box 54700 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19148. Call: (215) 468-3377. Fax: (215) 546-9712
